Hey, remember when you left the radio on, breathlessly counting the minutes until the next time they played "Come Out And Play"? (Hint: It was 37. Thirty-seven minutes.) Seems like a long time ago, right? Certainly longer than 13-odd years. Well, monolithic punk label Epitaph has decided it's been long e-freakin-nough, and will reissue the Offspring's 1994 monster breakthrough Smash - as well as the less successful yet infinitely superior '92 debut full-length Ignition - on June 17, the same day the group's latest effort, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace comes out.

No new bonus sonic material has been announced, but Smash will feature a 24-page booklet, likely full of anecdotes from semi-famous musicians about how all seven of the people in the room at that house party in Fullerton in '91 just knew the 'spring were gonna be huge.

I have a certain amount of respect for Dexter and Noodles and the boys - they seem to be fun, intelligent people, and "Self Esteem" was a perfectly serviceable tune. But designating the extremely timely Smash - which came out six months after Green Day's Dookie - a classic worthy of special reissue treatment seems a bit much; if anything, it might only serve to remind fans how ephemerally trend-oriented the aboveground punk scene has been since its mainstream arrival.